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Post by stryker on Nov 28, 2022 15:28:58 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Nov 29, 2022 16:05:28 GMT
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Post by stryker on Nov 29, 2022 16:57:46 GMT
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Post by louise on Nov 29, 2022 18:04:30 GMT
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954). Towards the end of Ww2, a British plane goes down in the North Sea, leaving the crew adrift in a life raft, as well as an important passenger (Michael Redgrave) who has a briefcase full of papers which are of vital importance. Meanwhile a British warship is searching for them. Worthy but slightly dull war picture, as films about people adrift in a lifeboat goes, it is not as good as Lifeboat, and it could do with Tallulah Bankhead.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 29, 2022 18:24:10 GMT
Frank Sinatra in The First Deadly Sin 1980 More a detective-thriller than an action-thriller.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 29, 2022 18:53:48 GMT
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Post by stryker on Dec 1, 2022 3:08:27 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 1, 2022 3:26:36 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 1, 2022 7:54:16 GMT
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Post by louise on Dec 1, 2022 16:33:53 GMT
Gold Rush (1955). Very entertaining comedy crime story about thieves trying to steal a load of gold from a train, hampered in their efforts by various assorted passengers.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 1, 2022 18:02:20 GMT
Ingrid Thulin, Maximilian Schell and Herbert Lom in Return from the Ashes directed by J. Lee Thompson. Lom is the good guy in this movie A bit slow paced as you wonder where it's going to go, something I didn't mind in this case.
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Post by louise on Dec 1, 2022 18:31:16 GMT
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) Richard Attenborough, George Baker and Bill Own as a trio of ex servicemen at a loose end after WW2. They buy their old ship and start using it for smuggling - at first fairly innocuous things like wine, but later they fall in with some harder villains and start smuggling nastier stuff. A rather gloomy thriller.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 2, 2022 3:04:44 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 2, 2022 3:40:41 GMT
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Post by london777 on Dec 2, 2022 13:11:28 GMT
Ingrid Thulin, Maximilian Schell and Herbert Lom in Return from the Ashes directed by J. Lee Thompson. Thanks for drawing our attention to this. A decent copy is currently on YouTube. An adaptation of the novel Le Retour des Cendres by Hubert Monteilhet (1928-2019). One of many films about survivors of WWII and the Holocaust belatedly returning to their homes, sometimes years, or even decades, after the cessation of hostilities. Another version of the same novel was Phoenix (2014) dir: Christian Petzold. Both are worth seeing, but the idea that her former husband would not recognize her less than a decade later, plastic surgery notwithstanding, requires some suspension of disbelief. Most husbands are intimately familiar with more of their wives' bodies and mannerisms than their faces.
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Post by louise on Dec 2, 2022 16:53:20 GMT
Man Hunt(1941). Wartime thriller. Walter Pigeon as an Englishman on holiday in Germany who is caught apparently about to shoot Hitler. He says he never meant to kill Hitler but the Gestapo officer (George Sanders, who else?) doesn’t believe him, and I must say Pigeon’s story does sound pretty thin. So anyway Pigeon escapes and gets back to England and the gestapo chase him all over London. Joan Bennet plays a rather improbable tart with a heart of gold who helps him. It is all rather absurd but quite entertaining.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 2, 2022 19:16:21 GMT
Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart in The House on Telegraph Hill 1951 directed by Robert Wise. Some similarities to Rebecca 1940 and the last before this movie I watched.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 3, 2022 3:16:06 GMT
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Post by stryker on Dec 3, 2022 7:27:51 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 4, 2022 0:22:27 GMT
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